When Anna met Stephanie, they were surprised to find out their lives had an interesting intersection. Like Stephanie, Anna’s interest in interior design and decorating was instilled through her travels and living overseas as Anna’s father was also a lawyer in the Navy’s Office of the Judge Advocate General. Relocating every three or four years provided her mother with many opportunities to put her decorating and design skills to use incorporating the family’s growing collection of object d’ arts and cultural styles into each new home. Anna became her mother’s assistant and was particularly proud when her mother was asked to redecorate a few Admirals’ homes and social spaces on Naval Bases.  

After 20 years Anna and her husband decided it was time to leave Key West and found that the next chapter in their lives involved restoring a 1924 Bungalow in the Historic Roser Park Neighborhood of St. Petersburg. When COVID ended her employment at the Dali Museum, Anna put her prodigious sewing skills to use making custom pillows, covered valances, chair cushions and more for her friends and clients of Stephanie’s. Their friendship soon became professional. S.P.A.C.E. needed a Design Assistant and Anna’s intrinsic design sense, coupled with strong managerial skills from a professional career of administrative management in museums and other large nonprofits, made it an easy decision.